Am I the only person who struggles with cultural appropriation uproar? I thought different cultures mixing and borrowing from each other was the point of living in a diverse society. Is it reasonable to assume that people of different cultures living together would wall off the ability of their culture being used by…

So you think. They’ll promote the hell out of it and take your money but when you tune in there will be nothing there!

Much like acquaintance rape, we’ve moved from a world where it’s effectively impossible for women who are sexually harassed at work to see any kind of justice to one in which it’s simply extraordinarily difficult and uncommon. And also like acquaintance rape, this had lead to panic and fury among men, who feel that…

I mean we all need to get to bone town, but if he seems like the kind of guy who will afterwards will make more booty calls I wouldn’t suggest going through with it.

Interestingly enough, that’s the one it covers. And that’s the one we saw every year. I have read the reports, and I will fully admit, the animal acts made me uncomfortable. I would have enjoyed it more if it had just been human performers. But I continued to take my kids, despite the moral quandary, because I find…

There are many, many controversial parts about the treatment of circus animals. I don’t dispute that for a minute. But I did read a really interesting book that focused a lot on the relationship between trainers and their animals.If you ever get a chance to read Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus by Bruce…

There’s a sucker born every minute!

I think it would have been really hard for them to keep touring AND run the government in Washington DC.

Seeing an elephant in person was entertaining enough before the internet piped videos to your phone on demand.

Jesus, my family and I flew out of that airport just a few days before. It never even occurred to me the timing of the poor people who were going through security at the time. Christ, what a nightmare on TOP of being in a terrifying situation.

I just had to explain to a male customer the arduous process of microwaving soup. The entire time all I could think was, “How are you alive?”